The parish of

RUAN MAJOR

The Online Parish Clerk for Ruan Major is Margaret Bauer, who can be contacted by Email.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP (the Cornwall Online Census Project), which is complete for 1841 to 1891 and has been verified, FreeCen at Rootsweb, which has a very good search engine and information from COCP, as well as GenUKI, which has more reference information and alternate resources.

REGISTERS:

For Parish Register information, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP), which is updated frequently, and GenUKI. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see the Cornwall Towns & Parishes link on GenUKI or visit the University of Leicester's Historical Directory website.

OTHER:

For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Ruan Major can be located at coordinates D - 1.

For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland).

To see a current, zoomable Ordnance Survey map, please visit MultiMap, or for maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

Mullion, Cury, St Martin in Meneage, St Keverne, Grade, Ruan Minor and Landewednack.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Ruan Major is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume III by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page 416). Also downloadable as a pdf from here.